Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - Random Rants, Notes and Articles No. 1 . . .

1919 - Recent Vessel Sales:

At the Baltic Shipping Exchange, London, on the 11th inst., by order of the Secretary of the United States Navy, there was offered for sale by public auction the American steel single-deck steamer 'Lake Erie'. This vessel is of 1,949 tons gross, and was built at Wyandotte in 1917 by the Detroit Shipbuilding Company. She was one of the United States Shipping Board (Emergency Fleet Corporation) boats. Last January she was sunk in Cardiff Roads through collision with the steamer 'Hazel Branch', and about two months later salvage operations were begun under the most difficult conditions and culminated in the successful beaching at Penarth in the beginning of August.

'War Beaver' in c.1917. She was commissioned by the US Shipping Board and renamed USS 'Lake Erie' during Januray 1918. [994]